VOL. XXVII. “ •• YApKmVILLE. YADKIN CftTW.C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, Wl ' *f0. »'* * p ".T .. fc • ________________ 1 ^ 0. x Ad '■£Jf Adventure Romance i By George Agnew Gsrmber’dn «*--■ •■ -- — $»' Copyright, The Bobbs-Mafriii Company r—- — SYNOPSIS. PART I.—Robert Hervey Randolph, young New York man-about-town, leaves the home of his sweetheart, Madge Van Tellier, chagrined because of her refusal of his proposal of marriage. His income, $10,000 a year, which he must surrender It a certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thorn ton (whom he has seen only as a small girl ten years before) is found, is not considered by the girl of his heart ade quate to modern needs. In a “don’t care” mood Randolph enters a taxi, unseen by the driver, and is driven to the stage door of a theater. A man he knows, Duke Beamer, induces a girl to enter the cab. Beamer, attempting to follow, is pushed back by Randolph and the cab moves on. . His new acquaintance tells Randolph she is a chorus girl, and has lost her position. She is in distress, even hungry, and he takes her to his apart ment. There, after lunch, a chance re mark convinces him the girl is the miss ing Pamela Thornton. He does not tell her of her good fortune, but secures her promise to stay in the flat until the morning, and leaves her. In a whimsical mood, also realizing that the girl’s reap pearance has left him practically penni less, he bribes the taxi driver to let him take his Job, and leaving word with the legal representative of the Thornton es tate where he can Qnd Pamela, takes up his new duties under the name of “Slim Hervey.” He loves the girl, but his pride forbids him approaching her under their changed conditions. PAftT II.—One evening he is engaged by Beacher Tremont. notorious profligate, ; Vu drive him and Madge Van Tellier to a hostelry known as "Greenwood.” Aware of the evil nature of the place, Randolph drives the pair to Greenwood cemetery. Infuriated, Beacher gets out of the cab and Randolph leaves him there, taking the girl (who has awakened to a realiza tion of her folly) to her home. Madge recognizes him. Pamela extended one cheek to the j salute while her eyes wandered off to size up the tall, Monde, cool young perse|eva'tt she surmised must answer to t -,:-Y»?e of Eileen Milyuns. Being the1 “ of two shorts, how on „ earttkos Like managed to grow so long? .face was wgularly beauti- i ful, as ‘ !gh it had been carefully' made to \,&ier like her clothes. She ap- j jlp fjeared as passive as a rainier snow- ; scape. After a little skirmishing for posi- j tion, the three ladies seated them- l Selves in a triangle, into the center of Which the well-trained Tomlinson van a tea-wagon. “Now/’ said Mrs. Milyuns, bavins * emptied and put down her cup, “lot’s forgftt the sheer romance of the silla tion; my dear, and get down to prac tical problems. The first of all things, as you must realize, is the. necessity of getting you a companion. Would you care to be our guest in'Madison avenue until you can pick one out?"’ “I would put clothes ahead of a house* a . murmured < mi. . e,i < s fixed on Miss ; iiornron’s perplexed face. That young lady sc: n. d in n ) hick of something to say but rather in search of words and the plunging courage necessary to the : ing. hr > drew.a long breath and d- v ered her.-eif of the feliowiug: “Reaily, it’s most awfully kind -of you. but, as I told Mr. Milyuns. Tom linson is such a dear that 1 am going to continue him as my companion.’’ “ ‘Y< m inson!’ ” exelah p I Mis.*M yun- and then smiled indulgently for the i s;t time during the interview, be ing \. (i t the impression that at last she } .id run into something appropri ate!.'. rive in the hearing of her now char . “Of course you can keep him on. but you must realize that you can’t live 'we without, a woman in the hoi: “Oh. yes, I can,” said Miss Thornton, a . lit - breathlessly.' “I have a feel ing—. can’t' explain" it exactly—that this ;r ■rtrnent is a one-woman setting. As I • d to "Mr. Milyuns. I don’t want to chy or it with females.” ' ;A si" :;t laugh crept into the eyes of the v " lesque Eileen; som thing in side * . r sa| up am? .to*;.v ^ouce. She glam- i roun'd the , room and mur mur d: .... ■' Tii tv she’s absolute*? right. I’m for-hi • ”, : !’ Iv’Ww 1”, exei-aimevl Mpp. Wink. ■ hushing in her indignation fit a traitor in the home ouniT). “I ieM)"’ -ow what your generation is fv..jorr. g r». The impossible is never right.” Having taken up her suave cudgel. Eileen v- as in no haste to lay it down, and may it be pointed out right here that Mis£ Imogene Pamela Thornton had the rare faculty of enlisting the nearo bystander do assume her bat ties t-- her, thenceforth becoming a •char u- ;iy interested onlooker, ready to wateli the. t" '•> or her''own fortune the vanta..- point of an entirely imp^rsohal detiUhment. i ■‘That':,* where y ni slipped, mother,” continue-! the o bte unrutth'd Eilec •. ‘‘There’.; nothin impossible to our genera tie?!.- Jr nail .on the head ' again, rafi^cr,” . -Ecu Eileen. “Yon’re net in yympatii th lu>r, and 1 .-on: so you’d be tie- ud. over her cheek. ! and tomorrow i. orning Tit ten TP be I \ here to help her .'ash and spend it—idj j necessary.” She erhed to Pamela witir | a twinkle of ar cipation in her eyes, j “How about it?” Pamela smiled back her bubbling i smile, and then suddenly grew grave. “Do you -think I could order by measure?” she asked, and, remarking the hurt astonishment on Eileen’s face, continued in rapid but neverthe less halting explanation: “You see, it*! Mr. Randolph. This is really his apart ment, and he may be back almost any —any day. I—I don’t want to miss him. I—I wouldn’t be out When he comes, for anything.” “Ii’m,” interjected Mrs. Milyuns, but before she could make any further progress along that line, Eileen was on her feet and saying good-by among these other things: “That’s all nonsense. If Bobby found you here just as lie left you, the first tune lie decided to turn up, lie might never appear again. But if he finds you after two or three unsuccess ful calls and just one day’s shopping. 1m will never leave. Tomlinson will have to throw him out.” “Tomlinson couldn’t,” said Pamela, with calm complacercy. Gradually the sure shot made by Miss Milyuns began to take effect. The thought of new clothes—new smart suits, airy evening nothings, filmy un dergarments, and solid-silk hosiery stole Pamela from her intention of eternal vigilance and led her to say: “After all, I will go with you, If it really h l’t asking too much of you.” Thus was Mrs. Milyuns side-tracked for keeps, and on the following morn ing the two young ladies were wafted down-town in Mr. Milyuns’ best” limou sine and proceeded to open a chain of. credit-aCeouMs, ou the bare say-so or" Eileen and in the name of fiilss.I. P. Thornton, that spoke volumes for the former’s exclusive taste in fashion able purveyors and financial ability to humor it. Possibly the two would have shopped up to the moment of the present writing had it not been for the fact that Pamela knew all about money from the short end. “I have finished.” she siirhlmilv no. nounced. “Finished what?" asked Eileen. “Finished shopp: w.” said Pamela. j ‘Tyo 4icon keening account, and I’ve spent almost the who’e check.” “ ‘I he whole <•’ h?’" exclaimed Ilileen. “Why. you haven’t ipuched it. ’1!tat's the beamy >f charge accounts. You can keen your checks to look at. I've got some that father save me three years ago.” Pamela smiled a smile <>f much wis dom arid made for the nearest exit. As a mrb' w of prh.fp v, vdien the? ! .-1, Plie asked Md; n to come up for inch froth the be.rlr Vr's buffet In':the basement, and she couh! not.lidlp a • light feelir- . of }'e': \C • 1 the news tic t Miss Milyuns had prowmed herself Isewhere. ‘‘Put, I 11 break aw >y and com*? for tea at five, if you'll let me,” said Ei leen. “I simply must help you try them all on.” “All right; cjo,” s id Pamela, inward ly pleased that she would have some one beside Tomlinson upon whom to flash the firs'- dazzling vision of her metamorphosis. The first Prng site did when she reached the r. irfment was to ask if Mr. Karidolph • nd called; the next was to summon e ice of Milyuns, Branch & Ml i s on the telephone to • know what w s hac h.een ‘ a ken in the new search. ’be was somewhat sur prised to le;-rn tl at the entire firm had gone out to ’much '■» a body, and still more start’ at tlv- Information, ob tained thro b ro o]i f1; o ^ostoms offlcMit? fa nu. 11 -I,. ';:Hiiji was ord*jrfd,j$i dll the •’oMar with wrapp!n?r-p«frot, ^fetu:*-pa !>’E c^-dboswd boxes add string, burn r wlmt \vj; -■ left hvfctf i)l the back :.3 soon t-H : udiePait space had been Cleared fur am ion, the tw'b girls yet to an ! wen? yooi; involved in sue!, an orgy of “trying, on” ns only th •v. ite • , stamina oT youth could free e.nJnrod wiih.vt falling over in , lend faint from exhaustion. Eve: Ed on J:v« aed I’.er person of ever E lag l . :>.} d expo: i moved with sc. ■1 nr garments a , it seemed impos-ibl ifi-ss Thornton could get round to in the allotted time. Having tried to show the public hov charming was Pamela in and wltliou her cheap clot lies, no puerile and gasp ing effort will be made in these pages to measure the effect upon her of the latest creations of the raiment dream gads of Fifth avenue. Suffice it to say ikut, in one hour’s twinkling of the j eye, she became such a radiant vision as chokes mere words down Into the pit of a man’s stomach, makes his jaw •work like that of a fistr on a hot side walk, fills his eyes with the pleading light of calf-love and inspires hia hands with an overmastering desire to reach for it. for two, four, six days, a wees, two weeks, Pamela lived In breathless an ticipation of the moment when she could burst upon the eyesight of one Hubert Ilervey Randolph, and when a’l these days—and week:*—passed with out any news of him, her lips that were made to smile, to kiss, and to bless the air with words softly spoken and carried on \] e fragrance of clean young 1 r, 1111 began to. droop pitifully. I Mr. Mi ms’ efforts in sev< ra 1 direc tions had so far n. oved in vain. He had advw in every paper in Goth am, from .; 0 v, v Yavli ISpo'di *o the pink IVr.c-etre; he had of’erob* . *varl : had set traps and w■ row y.irp’ eel ii:;.- :■ 1 >»••••«» corps of rap idly 4 fattening' h Inals who the ms dv f -rlon .es-’ n > .—« r ' \ ^ dy h ii! i;„ ,sr syllable bee oi’di- , net :■( -'brs were the infor mation that Mr. ' odolph, in a repre nerjsible state o. :■-toxicatlon and at seven o'clock o' : ■ morning of which ho had disappeared, bad exchanged his swell evening gc • .<*nts at a second hand emporium o Sixth avenue for a suit of thicks an< eighteen dollars ir cash, stating, as 1 left the place, that ho was thinking o going South for the rest of the winter. After a minute and leisurely study of all the exits f ni Manhattan, the plain-clothes men h d given it as their united opinion tb • Mr. Randolph had been speaking fawMously in ids last known remark am- had probably not voyaged farther mth than Canal street. They said If he would only try to leave New Yon they could find him at once, and seflb‘.[ down on a policy ■ of watchful waking for that event. • The efforts mode by Mr. MH-uny w , the direction of ;• aging Mis? Thor. - ton on society v equally av but ! were not quite ?<• fruitless. lis na ] tnral love >.f a -n> ' " -running estal ■ r-:*» - * ' : v ■ s. Ain's -social pku , ould"’line beer, saved a severe bn ;•> If. Ameri ut pn i'cjjts ■ c-.,.:.1 bo ib/k - 5 raeir, guests’ n jet-pHs ap* they are : •f uiy them rafh'gs in Rradstreetinn’s. T/nfortuafi-H iy - for Mr. .-Milyuns, ir b•'«}»’ mod' fbot a ee’da 'i? Truin'" scion ;l c-'c; house './as in c-’xded’ in Rue first large dinner-box >urty given to meet Miss Imogei i\>.mela Thornton. Irv the natural course ox such events, the pasty yo» ih Stepped up for presentation, register ing in his protuberant eyes a g’e.. i o‘: dubious surprise.- What iJt he should 'iay, ‘'Hello. Vivienne!” Would it cre ttie a son*:1.! ion 7 fmueib'r' else did; nair.ek'. Miss If.-rupee ■ lauuu’ated but kVrribly V* "it Clear v MT I J.v ( . ir. Ben i■;— ; tieta, c:‘ - * brt'iifid • • s s there ; I one of i'm-so s!i;-ne . r! ■ er— if he b n’t smte n kind - , n I think 1/caught t.I e: ; , 11, my •: . j If 1 let. any out, p: ; r v ," , i fitted tl e qu stfiav j mi: ; "‘.our v-m! : -y. ; :i ;!w;e j ■ •'y ' •’ ' ■ :» f i -'-Hi v ant to be fou ; by . a 1 ;• j e.rpoke that you \ .to find b.l ., V,r?” ; MMymr. dm 1 • ( j - ; i ' end ti.at he d .1 no: - . . .i!t; y. | > '■ -V vvorued e.n. 'You I would I" P ■ ; ■ a ; ed I yipr’y; nut! en >i ica .. . nv '-oat ymi’ve up y, e.r sleeve. Mauve; ti:::.t a dear girl! If only lunw l ow I’m v, orr.e i ,-v ■ •: < a da;.—” ' ‘ in tsy. ,r~ to tell you,” brake ir. You Taliicr. “but you talk s - hi' h I can’t get in anywhere. La t, a la vi brought me home from— Y'o'a a. drive, and the ;*..!• ,:ir::i w.e hy, look; sg simply sra; ::ln>g in , j.y tho a awfully high-collared, khaki. st-‘ ' net woolly coats, ehauh cur's , tan puttees, hoots, and nil—” “Yes, yes,” interrupted Mr. Milyuns: know now just how he looked. Yfljat was the 1 a, ase-num’ter o“ the car, and io which company did it ' elong? ’’ a A long pause. lAWhy, I (han’t Notice.” thanks awfully, my '. car.” Spend-of kanglng up f’ e ;wc‘ >o\ “So there you are” said Mr. Miiyuns to' the very much .excited P: urohi. “We’ve got this;i&r and, by a Hr.Ire en • i5rely unconnected with the two.. y h o cenths I have been pensioning •> ad i var.ee of 4heir lifelong service. 1. »ort s driving one of the sixty-three thou , and taxicabs .that infest the street> ■f New York.” j -‘Toor dear!” said Pamela, tear- ris- , ing to her adorable eyes. Then s' dis missed l\Ir. Milyuns, who would gladly have lingered. “I have to go o1 tow. ”m so sorry, but thank you very -cry iaui h.” I ----- (To be continued) !?J*rfL ^ r :v *• Si^ldlL£5. C£ji &! ?!?vlo |?yy/ < 'V; ;* ? N u « Is i £> .. _ I „ C i, j ; j < t? Precki- nt-o:•;(.•• Sh-.RlNg ho? 113S SCK • >. ' i i ; . ,il Ctil.u!16t ITU moors, Sec. qj 'to;-. . -f harles E\ an I Hughes. Now . , 1 Sec. Xre. IV | Mellon, Penny ’ in. Sec. of War—Jo.hn W. Week? of Mass. Attorney general—Harry M. Daugheity of Ohio. Postmaster general—Will II. Hayes of Indiana. Sec. of Navy—Edwin Den by of Michigan. Sec. of the In ter i-r—Albert B. Fall of New Mexico. Sec. of Agriculture.—Henry Wallace of Iowa. Sec. of Commerce—Herbert HoOver of California. Sec. of Labor—James J. Davis of Pennsy Iv.uiia. SEEDLING GBQV/TH iS RETARDED BY BRUSH Close Spacing Desirable to Pro duce Best Timber. When Tops cf Tress B’gin to Inter mingle and Crowd Each Other Some cf Them Should Be Cut Out for Eest Results. * Prepared by thf- United States Depart ment el' .Agriculture.t When cut-over land is planted ir. hard-wood seedlings, it may huppe; that a n&to.al hushy grots th \\jli ror u few years outgrow the planted trees, overtop them or crowd them, and thus interfere seriously with their deveiop ment. To insure the proper develop ment of the seedlings, forest special ists of the United States !tepaiftineni ot Agriculture say i.w Farmers' Ilulle D. 1128, “throwing and Planting Hardwood Sou riling on it is necessary to i^t'doaia the brush for two or ihroy years. When old trees with wide-spreading crown threaten to .f iiadp the seedlings sc they will n< : d^yy-lop properly, th. imiletin sugg •'^.jhat, such trees be •tit out a f v ytfyrs after the new p.anting bus >een smarted. t'o pro..;,- - clean-bodied timber •lose spaUng do irable. When the. tojiy (if tr -»s begin to im -r; 'in;.' and crowd «•; • : <. hoy.-ycei. •«•'•< - i Si's- (■' -•(.'(. • < ui , eg-, fa I V • ‘ eard" . t - r ' f 11 cs , ; | ■ r y good -c - ft , ->p ..f r ■ • -'yard ' b; ; g . i , >t o ... "(-.I ■ Chi -1 * ’:"s ’ -li. ’ " . l;> ve •••!:; V a ■' M: ’ ■. ■' a W - • .an shone: : cut < .it. y ■ ■ " re ’lit is ': •> !; -1 . f, r U.e re;aainiie.f pnr^ rail: • ban •: n .. leveiivnvcn: <■" y ■ <>•••; - y iippp The be t for. -.«d cm! • V :'S -•! • .. - >•* O', ii . s : c i t •; V ’ u in,e no with their gr.-.vih >;;'d lm r moved. Thinnings are tv ,-b ■ .< • Then a p! our*, for, b. ■ : t •,, • ' "i!rs p'd. v , at bye - ■ > y. openings in the <. ;m- . ->; stand made i.v •• • -.w not be too !:•. • to pr- » ; 11. ■ cm r' ■f tiie remainm.- . t ys /:• :n cov bring the gens in f -• to cv years. When poh ai t use, a crude-form cf thhuvry may b. accompli shed !v ip ."Vci: . of trees i a vie v t > >e i ip -> '■ ment of the stand. Penning of tree {‘ranches is ivand, .iinmve-:.r«ry, and, be-•:\xv-r of tlv* <•<>• of labor, tuir’y-cry’-.l?. Tf a free is pruned too far up ir ran.' by w»n be.vvy and easily- i ro’:< :i hy <.«•*>’ wind-.. The cabal ns. a.-h ai d bhm’c •h :vy are known to have sw'fe;\d from this and ?f y - 'u- .:v the so • is true of mar- m••• pp be cause of wide S;:.| •;,--. preTipo;- c. i;C{.‘ es-ary. it rh uid !• • •••:.ducted in late winter or car!/ y ; y -.mi sl;-.i;;id not |l>e Overdone. Eero? •: —?r K:l!cd by Ice. Council P ' Vs, la.—}diss At*-' . Hat -h. 2"* ait <\ suicide iiere by ieai)in.t; i: • ■ souri river fro; '•lie slr-^h car hub;. . [d Ik ah h is : • ;-s- the cause. ;,s; H.ab-! d-d "t drovn. !>ut dhy lV$»r-"ju rrf's !n • r;:::ng the me. Corn in i 'ii at'* 22 Years. l>a vet: port. 5a. , groin r.f corn which V,. A. Saiiii U of ‘■Vasilin-rt“T: iaM pifi'-Ml it: his ar tvhen a child retv ' ed ?<■ for 8? veer - atid #i«d eauwd mor’ suffering. I ,V' \t y rrr > ..fi: y l'i ih^cbu f-'H T *J f; w c t ,u rr */>; ■ • • - • rr • i i# t t • j . § J1 U ii C; l * ’ U j» J Ci J A ’ ? '■'- r - the *oh. r,:v' ‘ that Sheriff Zachan poun j ced upon him but I said we ad t vanced down the branch and I She iff Zachary stepped across the branch and put his hands on the men anti Baity shot. As to premeditated murder I did not say at ^ adkinville or Rajeigh that it was or was not as I did not know, as to the doubt that dont concern me; facts will stand but there is a place to be left doubts and wonders in the minds oi the people when we consider the whole transaction that the good people of this comm unity did all they could to bri :g the guilty parties to justice and have failed so Mr in their’ lefiorts. 'There were trin* bills {*oi: "id at last May term of court ag: ,-u several parties for block 'd and around lb 1.3 cam** <> ’ 11 d. ; : . r.ies have veil arrestee ot and no •'* o m> m .de to - esi them ■ ■»now ■ , did,, help; d to . i:t d a doners, •a h: dak, > '....as to or from g j ; O'.v .vir. Eika>r I v. ;• t to aigh in company with VGdi. - Dr. S. A. linking, R. G, Yaw and j. B. Graver ot iston and ( lemmont these •’ wi tarnish vou an aiftda t.iee as to my diverting ■ i ike tacts. My life is an op : book, ex. mine i«>i > < -urself. i . - i nu tru ie. * *> .C;'. i'm i>t ft.iM!!is r corn *• P. O'* m nu m . v Baity iv.. . i ..: 11it t*t u i m a smelt as; . rent u .>y is m das and we i let tile public do its own nipkjng about the matter. But !, ; ? act remains that Zachary is U’e-,, ! and Batty is alive and th l | v’ • • idau.de played an important pa in both scenes.) jo ssph H, isrtn Biss j;'.’. in Winston-Safsm i vfr. Joseph H. Gienn died at |,i:is home in Win sit n early !oi j day morning, after suffering a ' j stroke of paralysis. He was lb j years old. ! He was a prominent tobacco 1 j man and pari owner at Jiown’s { Wui'eiiou&e- .